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End ‘scourge’ of road deaths in Sweden

Friday 6th March 2020
Road safety
Road traffic accidents take around 1.35 million lives globally every year and cost most countries 3% of their GDP, a recent road safety summit in Sweden revealed.
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Image credit | HSE

Modified podium steps led to worker's 2 m fall

Tuesday 18th February 2020
Work at height
A tower crane hire company has been fined after a worker fell two metres when the podium steps he was working on toppled over.
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Mobile data

Thursday 6th February 2020
Road safety
Since its introduction nearly two decades ago, telematics – the combination of telecommunications and infomatics – has come a long way in reducing the risks of driver distraction.
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Factory

Roofer fell six metres onto concrete floor

Tuesday 4th February 2020
Work at height
The failure to properly plan and appropriately supervise work at height has led to a £60,000 fine for a Basingstoke roofing firm.
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Nightclub fined over death of reveller who fell 40ft

Thursday 30th January 2020
Work at height
The manager of a nightclub where a man plunged 40ft to his death when he fell over a “low level” barrier has been prosecuted.
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Music trial for silent electric buses

Tuesday 21st January 2020
Road safety
Transport for London (TfL) has announced a trial that involves playing an artificial sound through speakers on the front of the new generation hybrid and electric buses.
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Image credit | Greater Manchester Police

Boss who forged dead worker’s signature jailed for two years

Friday 17th January 2020
Work at height
The contracts manager of a roofing firm has been jailed after forging health and safety documents after a worker fell to his death.
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Image credit | HSE

Roofer fell from ladder carrying bucket of tiles

Friday 10th January 2020
Work at height
A roofing company has been convicted of safety breaches after a worker sustained serious back injuries when he fell from a ladder while holding a bucket of broken tiles.
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Image credit | iStock

Worker fell 2 m and landed on head

Thursday 12th December 2019
Work at height
A construction company has been ordered to pay $151,578.21 to a worker who was left permanently paralysed from the chest down after falling about two metres and landing on his head.
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Image credit | HSE

Director sentenced after brother’s fatal fall

Thursday 12th December 2019
Work at height
The director of a solar panel company in Worcestershire has been ordered to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work and to pay costs of £15,000 after his brother fell to his death while installing solar panels.
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